When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the … - Ilka Chase

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I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.

Ilka Chase

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

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Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

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Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder. . . is clothes.

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That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

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Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

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There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.

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